A large gold and turquoise-inlaid bronze belthook, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period

Susan Chen, Hong Kong, 1995.

Compare a few related bronze belthooks of a similarly large size, including one inlaid with turquoise, gold and silver, exhibited in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982, cat. no. 48; another decorated with turquoise and gold, from the Junkunc Collection, sold in these rooms, 22nd September 2021, lot 47; a third with gold and silver inlay, included in the exhibition Inlaid Bronze and Related Materials from Pre-Tang China, Eskenazi, London, 1991, cat. no. 39. See also a similar belthook of a slightly smaller size, formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull, sold at Christie's New York, 25th September 2020, lot 1529.